February 2024 update
Instructables builds There are 5 ‘I made this’ posts on Instructables now for pi-lomar, and a few other builders have been in contact with questions and suggestions over the last two months. I’m really looking forward to seeing what people manage to do with the telescope and get some feedback and improvement ideas. GitHub for…
January 2024 update
Testing Pi-lomar on the Raspberry Pi 5 Will Pi-lomar run on a Raspberry Pi 5? Spoiler alert! No. Not yet. The camera and GPIO libraries have changed, but how close is it to working? Interestingly more of the required packages that made the RPi 4 Buster build tricky seem to be pre-installed in Bookworm now.…
December 2023 update
Finally published So the telescope project is finally out! 50% of the project time seems to have gone into making the instructions. Mainly because life is busier now than during the Pandemic, and partly because of all the lessons learned while making them. Like so much of the project, the instructions included a lot of…
Short Bus Blog 